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标题：REDISTRIBUTING INCOME TO THE POOR AND THE RICH: PUBLIC TRANSFERS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
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作者：Kathy Lindert ; Emmanuel Skoufias ; Joseph Shapiro 等
期刊名称：En Breve
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
期号：may
出版社：World Bank Group
摘要：A recent regional study by the World Bank1 measures the extent to which publicly-subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) redistribute income. Four factors motivate our interest in this topic: poverty, inequality, perceptions of social injustice in LAC, and the significant share of public resources devoted to these transfers in several countries in the region. Clearly, social policy has other important objectives besides redistribution, including (a) smoothing of income over the life cycle in relation to people¡¯s needs; (b) promoting the accumulation of human capital; and (c) ensuring adequate protection against events such as sickness, disability, unemployment, or loss of income. These themes, however, are beyond the scope of this report, which modestly asks: ¡°how redistributive are public transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)?¡±